near missnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˌnɪə ˈmɪs/us/ˌnɪr ˈmɪs/near miss noun [ C usually singular ] (HIT)
also near thing a situation in which something almost hits something else:
A Boeing 747 was involved in a near miss with a private aircraft just south of San Francisco.
That was a near miss - we must have come within an inch of that lorry!
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Events and occurrences
- -athon
- a close call idiom
- a close/near thing idiom
- action
- all-nighter
- back story
- be (all) part of life's rich tapestry/pageant idiom
- call
- development
- event
- goings-on
- happening
- incident
- jamboree
- life event
- past
- spectacle
- synchronicity
- to-ing and fro-ing
- turn of events
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near miss noun [ C usually singular ] (HAPPEN)
an attempt to do or achieve something that fails although it almost succeeds
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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